Jun 09 2009
Movie Review - The Hangover
Tim Falletti
When it comes down to it, marriage is one of the scariest, important, frightening, beautiful days of a man’s life. But before that day happens, you have to have one last night of pure debauchery. Enter: The Hangover. If I have a bachelor party one sixteenth as crazy and funny and life altering as the one in this movie, I will die a happy man.
The story of four guys going to Vegas for a bachelor party might sound stale. But what they do here in The Hangover is different. We never experience the night with the guys. We wake up in the same Vegas hotel room hungover, missing a friend. We are detectives that are trying to piece together the night with these guys because they can’t remember their night of debauchery. That little twist makes the experience that much funnier.
Think of the first time you really knew about Will Ferrell. My guess is that it was probably in Old School. That role brought us such comedies as Anchorman, Ricky Bobby, and Step Brothers. Without Old School, Will Ferrell would not be the star he is today. Without Old School we wouldn’t have the whole Apatow clan. The Hangover is to Old School as Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis is to Will Ferrell. This movie is going to make those two complete and total stars. 10 years from now when Galifianakis is on his fifth summer blockbuster sequel, you will think back to The Hangover as the movie that started it all. And just like Old School, The Hangover will be played over and over again in dorm rooms for years to come.
I am not getting into hyperbole when I say that The Hangover is the funniest film of the year…and quite frankly, it’s probably the funniest movie in about five years. Its raunchy, it’s sarcastic, it’s physical, it’s psychological. It will make you laugh hard, it will make you chuckle, and it will make you start laughing out loud two hours after you have gotten home and finally got the joke. It’s funny. There I said it.
